Grand Turk vs Half Moon Cay "Horseback Ride & Swim" Excursion ?

Perhaps someone can offer up some personal experience with either the
Grand Turk or Half Moon Cay horseback ride and swim excursion... maybe
someone has done them both....

When we were in Roatan we missed out on the beach horseback ride
because it fully sold out via the Internet prior to the cruise
departure... Since I'm still hearing about that today... I'm going to
book one in the next few days.

TIA

jay
Fri Feb 05, 2010

"Go Fig" wrote in message
...
Perhaps someone can offer up some personal experience with
either the
Grand Turk or Half Moon Cay horseback ride and swim excursion...
maybe
someone has done them both....

Jay, the best advice is to do them separately. The darn horses
sink, and then you end up swimming anyway.

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"Nonny" wrote:

"Go Fig" wrote in message
...
Perhaps someone can offer up some personal experience with
either the
Grand Turk or Half Moon Cay horseback ride and swim excursion...
maybe
someone has done them both....

Jay, the best advice is to do them separately. The darn horses
sink, and then you end up swimming anyway.

You could do them consecutively on the same tour.

--
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I get off on screamin' guitars
--Eric Clapton

Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article ,
"Nonny" wrote:

"Go Fig" wrote in message
...
Perhaps someone can offer up some personal experience with
either the
Grand Turk or Half Moon Cay horseback ride and swim excursion...
maybe
someone has done them both....

We did the beach horseback ride in Jamaica (I think) where the horse
actually swims a short route in the water. I was on the first horse,
fortunately. As we knew, but didn't consider, horses poop almost
constantly. Well, they don't stop just because they're in the water.
The people who were not at the front were waste deep in water with poop
floating by. We decided not to do it again. Plus, I don't think the
horses were having a great time either.

On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:23:41 -0600, Edward wrote:

Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article ,
"Nonny" wrote:

"Go Fig" wrote in message
...
Perhaps someone can offer up some personal experience with
either the
Grand Turk or Half Moon Cay horseback ride and swim excursion...
maybe
someone has done them both....

We did the beach horseback ride in Jamaica (I think) where the horse
actually swims a short route in the water. I was on the first horse,
fortunately. As we knew, but didn't consider, horses poop almost
constantly. Well, they don't stop just because they're in the water.
The people who were not at the front were waste deep in water with poop
floating by. We decided not to do it again. Plus, I don't think the
horses were having a great time either.

One trip when we went to Half Moon I did the parasailing, and I saw
the Horseback Ride and Swim, but I have no other experience of this
excursion.

My children used to swim their ponies/horses for fun sometimes. (We
had them on a farm which fronted on the St. Mary's River in Maryland.)
Usually they rode bareback with web bridles or with a halter so as not
to get the tack wet. Horses are slippery when wet which added to the
fun for them.

They also would swim in the farm pond which was a place with a deep
drop off on one side and a sloping side where they could climb out at
only one place. So the horses had to leap in and swim to the other
side.

Some horses liked it and some didn't. One of the ponies didn't
automatically put his head up out of the water so his nostrils were
under water. The farm pond was small so I guess he just held his
breath. But he really didn't care for it all that much.

When they went into the water from the beach, they would walk out as
far as they could and then they would bounce off the bottom until
they actually had to swim. This made a fun ride.

My sister has done a beach ride on Amelia Island FL but I don't think
it was swimming - just galloping along the beach.

Personally I would book both of them which would give you a better
chance of actually being able to do it. Half Moon is a tender port
and sometimes it is too rough to go in. Plus it is usually the end or
the beginning of the cruise and can be skipped due to various things
happening.